[6bone] ipv6 setup question

[Flavio Curti]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:03:32AM +0200, Pim van Pelt wrote:
> Hoi,
> 
> Smoe year or so ago I had the same problem, but with Riverstone as a
> bridge. Check to see if it handles multicast properly. I see your paste
> with the linux/usagi boxes doing a neighbor sollicitation. This is like
okay, ill check multicast possibilty of the bridge on the openbsd
mailinglist.

> I'm interrested to see if your NS reaches xl1 and xl0 on the OpenBSD
> box. Please tcpdump them when you are trying an NS from the backend
> (xl1) LAN.
the tcpdump you see was done on the xl0 interface on the openbsd box.
(this is the interface 'the farest away')
so it does reach the openbsd box, but somehow the kernel does not think
its for him... hmmmmppp

> My bet is, the OpenBSD kernel never gets the neighbor sollicitation and
> therefor cannot answer with a neighbor advertisement, so the client
> boxes never know which linklocal address (and MAC adres) to send the
> ICMPv6 echo packet to.
yup...

> The other way around, is trivial. The OpenBSD box does send out a NS
my thoughts.

> I hope this is somewhat clear :) Check if the bridge forwards NS
> properly and while you're at it, check to see if it bridges router
> advertisement/sollicitation (RA/RS).
okay, i will check that... (which i doubt, i tried using rtadvd which
didn't work...)

thank you very much & greetz

Flavio

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